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Lady's-finger
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What's The Definition Of Lady's-finger?
[n] tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lady's-finger: Abelmoschus esculentus | gumbo | Hibiscus esculentus | okra | okra plant Related Terms | Find terms related to Lady's-finger: See Also | Abelmoschus | genus Abelmoschus | herb | herbaceous plant Lady's-finger In Webster's Dictionary \La"dy's fin"ger\,
1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch.
2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions
of a finger.
3. A long, slender variety of the potato.
4. (Zo["o]l.) One of the branchi[ae] of the lobster.
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